June in Review

I read 6 books in June. My favorite read was The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. I’m quite a bit behind in Moby-Dick, but I am confident that I will finish it by the end of July. Below is the complete list of books I read in June:

Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (read for Modern Detour but not yet reviewed)- 🙂 🙂 🙂

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I am a PhD student in French with a particular interest in late medieval and early modern religious rhetoric and performance. I love browsing research libraries and shopping at used bookstores for obscure/lesser known books.
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I’ve heard great things said about The Old Man and the Sea.It is one book I’m looking forward to read,so I can’t wait to see what you will think of it!
Five Weeks in a Balloon seems intriguing,although Jules Verne has never enticed me.I guess I must give him a chance one day!

Jules Verne wrote over 60 novels. Five Weeks in a Balloon is only the first.

I’ve also read Around the World in 80 Days in the past. It is noteworthy that there is no hot air balloon in that novel. I say this because the film version has Phileas Fogg traveling around in a balloon with his servant Passepartout (they make him Spanish whereas he is French in the novel), but that is nowhere in the book.

I want to read some science fiction but I don’t know any good contemporary sci-fi. I figure that the best place to start is with Verne since he is considered the father of sci fi. I have a feeling though that his 60+ stories will have similar story lines. We’ll see…I hope to read 2-3 of his stories this year.

I just thought of this. You might find this interesting. One of Verne’s stories was adapted into a 1902 silent film by the filmmaker Georges Méliès. After it was filmed, it was hand colored. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_R4borJ3bk